Night+Day New Orleans (The Cool Cities Series from Pulse Guides)

By Todd Price

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976601397
• ISBN13: 9780976601395
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Pulse Guides
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

This post-Katrina guide cuts right to the best stuff in NOLA

I fortuitously stumbled upon one of the authors of this guide at a bookstore in New Orleans. As many businesses and restaurants have closed in New Orleans since Katrina, I was in search of something current. This book had just been released the week I was in town (March 2007) so I went ahead and picked one up. As I had limited time to spend in the city and it was my first time there, I quickly became acquainted with the Pulse Guide. In addition to listing all of the recommendations I had gotten from friends who were locals, this book covered everything I needed to find. When I travel, I like to live more like a local rather than hitting the typical tourist joints. This book enabled me to do that while ensuring I was still hitting the must-sees. The book starts out with a list of the 99 best things to do in New Orleans. It breaks it down into 33 categories (e.g., late-night eats, po' boy joints, neighborhood bars, spas) with 3 top selections in each category. This made the must-sees easy for me. Because I wasn't wasting time trying to find out where to go, I was actually able to hit several of the 99 best. Night+Day New Orleans is easy to navigate for several reasons. It lists the businesses by name in a "black book" at the end of the guide, where it quickly notes the address, website, area, phone #, type of experience and page number for more details. Then, the guide divides the detailed descriptions by the following 3 categories: Cool, Bohemian and Classic. This way I could quickly gauge the vibe of a place. It also gives sample itineraries as well as city essentials, events, and a cheat sheet. I knew I had done a good job covering the city when I found a list of 9 "streets to stroll" in the cheat sheet section and realized I had made it to all of them. The only improvement I would like to see is more maps. There are only 2 maps in the back of the guide, and often they were not detailed enough for me to use for navigation. One area (Riverbend) was frequently referred to but not even listed on the map. As a result, I got a separate map in addition to the book to get around. Overall I liked this book so much that I plan to get one for my own city (San Francisco) to see what I've been missing. Highly recommended.